An introduction to the Dis-Letneins

The changing of things
Reading from the University of Altheizar

All things in our world have been created by the gods, and are woven of the first sounds vibrations. Our gods have given their elements to the creations, that can be of one of the four natures: earth: solid matter; water: liquid matter; air: gas or fire: plasma.
If we take water as an example, we will see that the nature of it changes, and with each change, it is given another name. Water is liquid, we call it ice when it is solid, and steam when it is a gas. One might not be able to hit someone with water, but sure can do this with ice. You cannot drown in ice. Things change, names change.
This also goes for other changes. If we take a part of a tree, we call it a branch, and smaller bits are leaves. We hold it, but we don’t call it tree anymore. You can’t climb a branch or a leaf.
If we take a Karfunk, we hold a Karfunk that is in all of his appearance a Karfunk. We can use it as a gemstone in our jewellery, we can touch it and taste it and see Fon reflect in it. If we powder it, we cannot do any of these things: the Karfunk is no longer Karfunk.
If I get a brick of Ambrazhauri, I can do things with it. The moment I change it into powder, it has lost its power. If I burn it, ashes will be left: the Ambrazhauri has changes beyond recognition and can’t be called Ambrazhauri any longer. The powder can make your lungs sore, but the brick won’t.

In Dis-Letneins we change things. There are a few ways to change things, we can separate some things from each other, and we can join things. In both cases, the thing changes, the name changes, and the way it works changes. What we do is called magic by some, but it is mere science. Just keep in mind that you change things. Once it is changed, you cannot change it back to what it was just because it once was. Furthermore, you cannot change a thing without changing the name. If we have a bit of ice, and we heat it, it turns into water. Ice can’t be liquid. Water is liquid. Water can’t be solid.
Keep that in mind while doing your research.

Changing things in Dis-Letneins concentrates on separating and joining. On an easy level, we can take a bowl of soil dirt and separate the things in it: earth, animals, bits of plants. Once it is separated, we don’t call it soil dirt anymore.
For separating the metal from the rock, we heat the rock, so the metal turns into a liquid state and can come out. Rocks with metal are called ore, but as soon as the heating starts, it changes. In the end there is bare rock and metal, and there is no more ore left.

Dis-Letneins is crucial in the world of metallurgy. But metallurgists don’t work magic, even when some might think so. In metallurgy, we find another kind of changing things: the joining. By binding two metals or other substances, new things are created.